General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

Took last implant for cloak in Crysis2 and made the game considerably more easy...i don't need to turn the cloak at all anymore. Not even while running.
 
Me and Vault Dweller tried a game of League of Legends together and did quite well. Pretty fun stuff, hopefully another NMA'er or Orderite will try it with us some time. :D
 
Hoxie said:
Me and Vault Dweller tried a game of League of Legends together and did quite well. Pretty fun stuff, hopefully another NMA'er or Orderite will try it with us some time. :D
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I'd love to play a game with you! We shall schedule the playing times sometime tomorrow.
 
Got around to playing Arrival, and I'm left confused. What the fuck Bioware?

I expected something well written and awesome like LotSB. Instead I got a corridor shooter that has you going solo with zero meaningful choices and the worst writing I've ever seen in the series.
 
Currently playing buy a new PSU. After a week of it being a bit shakey when it started up it's finally crapped out.
Shame really as I had just got back into playing DoW II Retribution yesterday and had finally completed the IG campaign.
Final Boss was a bit easy, all it took was one pissed off Lord Commissar + power fist and a Baneblade tank. Rest of my army just hung round the back shooting any reinforcements and repairing/healing.
 
Hoxie said:
Me and Vault Dweller tried a game of League of Legends together and did quite well. Pretty fun stuff, hopefully another NMA'er or Orderite will try it with us some time. :D
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LinkPain username, so friend me when you want.


Why does Crysis2 multiplayer suck? They don't uncloak.
Whereas in Crysis1 energy is conserved way more and gives more tactical options.
So what did they want to make? Another CoD awesome multiplayer? Failure...
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
Got around to playing Arrival, and I'm left confused. What the fuck Bioware?

I expected something well written and awesome like LotSB. Instead I got a corridor shooter that has you going solo with zero meaningful choices and the worst writing I've ever seen in the series.
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I know what you mean. They have worst DLCs, hell compared to most of them F3 and F:NV are actually decent. Not sure who came up with Ostagar, Pinncle Station and Friewalker, but It feels like they dont have talent for DLCs. Yet sometimes they do manage, but dont learn anything from it.

As for Crysis 2 I like the plot and weapons better. Crysis 1 took its time to get rolling and to be honest wasnt that interesting. Best thing it had was big open maps. Not sure why but I liked FarCry over Crysis, maybe it was the map design.
 
Hoxie said:
League of Legends
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Good that someone mentioned it, I need help.
I've downloaded, installed and updated that thing, created an account, and when I want to start the game (log in), it takes a while, and then Windows alerts me that the site I'm trying to log in is running on old certificate, or something. Can't really understands what my fucking computer says. When I click "Yes", it keeps on loading until it says "Server not found", or "Incorrect password or username". I'm pretty sure I typed in the right password.
Help?
 
sea said:
The Dragon Age DLCs were handled, more or less, by a skeleton crew of only a few people, minus the voice actors and QA stuff. Of course, it shows in how short, linear and generally underwhelming they were, but yeah, it's not really "BioWare" so much as "some guys we dedicated to churning out add-ons every few months."

Mass Effect's Pinnacle Station was wretched (I can't believe I spent money on a fucking botmatch pack), but I'm pretty sure it was outsourced to another developer, not handled internally by BioWare, which explains how utterly horrible and devoid of value it was. Bring Down the Sky was done internally by the original team, I think, which is why it turned out significantly better. Firewalker, Lair of the Shadow Broker etc. for Mass Effect 2 were done by the original Mass Effect 2 team, which is why they're generally better (I don't get the complaints against Firewalker, I enjoyed it). However, once again, Arrival was done by a secondary BioWare studio (I think possibly the one who did that iPhone game?) and so once again turned out pretty crappy.

Bethesda, meanwhile, had their full teams more or less dedicated to making DLC, which is why Fallout 3 actually had some pretty worthwhile add-ons in the form of Broken Steel and Point Lookout. I'm not sure how things will go for Obsidian with New Vegas' DLC, but again, it seems like they have significantly more people working on theirs.
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Thank you for explaining that. I wasn't aware how much resources each company put in DLC production.

Since im done with ME2 and Crysis 2 is almost over, next up will be Blood Bowl Legendary Edition .
 
I've been playing the story mode for COD 4. Still holds up IMO, the sniper mission is still fucking intense (especially waiting for the batalion to pass right next to you).

I'll probably replay COD:MOD2 next, another good but overdone story.
 
I think the story in Mod 2 had some potential but was put together horribly and had major gaps that required way too much piecing together from the player.

I found COD4's story fine and the missions, especially on veteran, to be a ton of fun.
 
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Did you read Atlas Shrugged too?

Finished Crysis 2 and by the gods i will never play or think about this piece of crap again. Transition is even worse than DA2 storywise, because they killed all NPCs from Crysis1 and they have the balls to tell you in the face while you play a complete mute masochist.
 
thegaresexperience said:
I've been playing the story mode for COD 4. Still holds up IMO, the sniper mission is still fucking intense (especially waiting for the batalion to pass right next to you).

I'll probably replay COD:MOD2 next, another good but overdone story.
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Have tried playing COD4 on multi? I've been meaning to try it again sometime, since it had a great multiplayer which unfortunatly took the wrong direction as for how people played it (no trying to immerse in the atmosphere, but taking uber weapons, exploiting all the camp-spots etc.).
 
Bioshock 2 kinda disappointed me too, for very similar reasons (and also because Rapture stretches my suspension of disbelief to it's limits; 10 years since it's fall and it's all in working order? And there are still hundreds of splicers, food and Eve? Kinda feels like the Fallout 3 situation here).

And yet, most of the complaints about the story are crushed when I can dash across a room drill first and give those annoying gun-toting Splicers a taste of Big Daddy medicine. Or gleefully fill them with Rocket Spears and send them flying. Damn but these moments never got old.

Oh, and I rediscovered my love of the GBA with another emulator. Can't believe I almost forgot Fire Emblem, probably the only Japanese franchise I really like (those games released in the West anyway). And it's still pretty hard not to get people killed.
 
Finished Crysis.
Hunter + Warrior combination for the end bosses is kinda tiring (and unexpected), but it's a great shooter.
 
Main problem I have with Bioshock 2 is that's obviously pretty rushed. Especially if you have the artbook you can see all these interesting ideas that they never quite went with.
For instance the prison area you go to was originally going to contain a still sane population who were managing to eek out an existance due to the heavy regulation of plasmids.
Only thing about this that actually shows in the game is that the guard looking splicers don't look mutated.

I don't mind most of the characters either, Sinclair has some dimension to him so it's not all flat. I think they all get tarred by Sophia Lamb though who is just a crap Ryan expy.

Best chaingun in any game ever! :V
 
Atomkilla said:
Finished Crysis.
Hunter + Warrior combination for the end bosses is kinda tiring (and unexpected), but it's a great shooter.
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Don't play Crysis 2, you will shit bricks, mark my words.
 
Baldur's Gate 2, Quake 4 and Blood Bowl LE.

BG 2 still looks absolutely gorgeous and so does Q4, I would recommend that "silly shooter" over Doom 3 or COD 8 any day.

Blood Bowl is rather interesting/ challenging for a noob like me.


Ilosar said:
Bioshock 2
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I really tried to like the first Bioshock game, I loved the art deco dystopian setting but in the end I had to force myself to finish that game.

It took itself ( Ayn Rand lite philosophy + 'deep' story' with a plot-twist !) way to serious IMO.
That game just screams: LOOK AT ME GAMES CAN BE ART

Combine that with the Halo level difficulty, out of this world hype, clunky movement a nauseating FOV, "spiritual successor to SS" and you have a new irritating multi-million dollar franchise.
 
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